CMOD6001 Bespoke Award Assignment (a.k.a. The Job Exercise)

Each student has been given a job description.

Imagine that this particular job is the job that you want.

Find out

• What technical skills are required for the job
• What non-technical / soft skills are required for the job
• What do all those technical terms mean *
• What modules at CIT should you take to get those skills
• Which modules provide which skills
• What kind of modules should you take, but are not offered at CIT

* Actually find out, understand, and explain in your own words. A copy & paste won't do

Students should publish the results of their investigations to their blogs by the end of week 5. It's week 3 now.

During Week 6 I will ask students to briefly outline their findings in class. Students who are not present in class when called upon will receive a very low mark. Students who are called upon to present will be marked based on their ability to answer questions on the day and their blog. Students who are not called upon will be marked on the blog alone. There is unlikely to be time to call on every student over the course of the week, but that might be possible. Each student will be asked once. Students who are no present on the day will not be provided a second opportunity.

CMOD6001 COM1 Class 07 Lab B

We looked at google docs and how to share and collaborate on documents

SOFT7001 Timetable has been updated

CMOD6001 DNET

I gave out job description (more about those later)

I explained that each group will be joined by a student in Helsinki

Students go into their project groups and discussed what they want to get out of college.

Two students left their dirty coffee cups behind them for someone else to clean up. Amazing.

CDMO6001 COM1

I explained that each group will be joined by a student in Helsinki

Students go into their project groups and discussed what they want to get out of college.

audio: cmod6001-com1-06-20110923.m4a

CMOD6001 DWEBD1

I explained pass by compensation and carry fairl.

I gave a quick overview of the appeal process. More info at www.cit.ie/appeals

I explained that each group is going to be joined by a student in Helsinki

I explained that students will be expected to go away on Erasmus in Semester 6. Students may be permitted to stay in Cork in exceptional circumstances.

audio: cmod6001-dweb-06-20110923.m4a

CMOD6001 Group Blogs

Each groups is going to start a group blog.

To do this
1. One member of the groups starts second blog. Nothin' too fancy for the name.
2 In Settings > Permissions add authors

Each group should use its group blog to sell itself to prospective team members. You might want to include links back to the individual groups members' blogs. Since some Metropolia students will be influenced by the availability of meeting times, you could list possible meeting times or even provide a link to a google calendar of your timetable.


Each student should include a link to the group blog by
1. going to Design
2. Add a gadget
3. add a Quick Links gadget
4. Put a link to the group blog


Your prospective group members from Metropolia and IUT  Lannion will probably use the blogs to find the groups they want to join.

France is 1 hour ahead of Ireland. Finland is 2 hours ahead of Ireland. So when it's 9 in Cork, it's 10 in Lannion, and it's 11 in Helsinki.

If you plan to use google calendar to organize meetings, you may need to enable the time zone support to that an invitation to a meeting at 9 in Cork is received in Helsinki as an invitation to a meeting at 11.

CMOD6001 Groups

Group List

I have assigned students to groups. Where students are in an incompatible group from a time table perspective, I will, of course, move them. However, in general, students are stuck with whoever they were assigned. Students who are groupless should find a group that is prepared to take them. Groups should think carefully about who they allow to join. Groups that already have 5 members may not take on any more.

We will have to formalize the procedures for removing students from groups if they are not pulling their weight. But in general this will be possible. Students who have been removed from a group may join another group that will have them, or may be required to work alone.

Each group will be joined an additional student from IUT Lannion or Metropolia Helsinki. (More about this later)

IUT students are restricted to joining groups G H I J K Q R S T U V

SOFT7001 Class 03

This class was in PF54. There was no projector, no computer, and not that many power points either.

Students that had laptops hared with those that didn't and go to work on the different combinator selectors (Secion 8 p32 of the handout). I got students started but I left at 1530 because I was no longer to prepared to shout over workers outside cutting stone.

I hope we will move the class from this room soon.

CMOD6001 ITM Class 05

I explained pass by compensation and carry fail.

I told students that the last person in each project will be a student from IUT Lannion in France.

We will pin down the project details later

audio: cmod6001-itm-05-20110922.m4a

CMOD6001 DNET/DCOM

We looked at some module descriptors to understand what there terms mean. And I discussed what would be expected for this module.

I explained RPL and how it works

Someone brought a cup of coffee to class but I left it go. However he didn't even bother to put it in the bin when he was finished. No food and drinks are allowed in class, except for bottled water.

Attendance was only about 50%. That's discouraging for week 2

audio: cmod6001-dnet-04-20110922.m4a

CMOD6001 DNET/DCOM Class 03 lab

Students set up blogs at blogger.com

CMOD6001 DWEB1 Class 04

Only about half of the class turned up.

I put students into groups.

I very quickly ran through blogger for the students in DWEB1-B who haven't had a lab yet. Every students is expected to make at least one blog entry per week Students who have't already done so should e-mail me the URL of their blog soon.

I asked studenst to discuss why they are at college and we did an exercise

no audio. turn up to class!

CMOD6001 ITM Class 04 ITM

I put students into their project groups. Some students moved classes so I will re-assign them to other groups. Others have no group.

We talked about why people come to college. I gave out an exercise sheet and asked students to discuss it in their groups.

audio: cmod6001-itm-04-20110921.m4a

SOFT7001 Class 02 - Cancelled

No class today. I have to go to a meeting.

SOFT7001 Class 01

We looked at the module descriptor and I explained what this module was and wasn't. Since a number of students are taking this an an elective I explained what the pre-requisites were.

I asked students to construct a simple web page with some tags and to change the color of the text using a linked style sheet. The students present were able to do that, so I figure they know enough CSS to proceed with this module.

I gave out a handout. I had enough for all but one student. It was a copy of (most of) http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/

Students with laptops should being them to the class in PF54. There is no prospect of doing anything productive there otherwise. I have requested a room change.

DWEB2 students are automatically registered for this module. Other students need to register. The CRN for this module is 22517.  I would like these students to also e-mail their names to me.

 audio: soft7001-01-20110920.m4a

CMOD6001 COM1 Class 02

We talked about the appeals process and Erasmus

cliona.mcguane@cit.ie is the Erasmus co-ordinator for the dept. of Computing

audio: cmod6001-com1-02-20110920.m4a

CMOD6001 COM1 Lab A

Students set up blogs at blogger.com

Students will be expected to make at least one blog entry in English per week.

I gave out number job ads. Details later

RPL for Languages

When I spoke about RPL I said that student who just came from the leaving cert probably didn't have any experience that they could use for recognition for prior learning. However students who speak a language other than English many be able to apply for PRL for a module in that language.

You can look for language modules in the modules database at modules.cit.ie

There are modules for Irish, French, German, & Spanish.

CMOD6001 ITM Lab ITM1-A

Students set up blogs at blogger.com. Students will be expect to make at least one blog enrty per week.